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Similarities and Differences in Media Literacy

Media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy are similar in that they all aim to cultivate people's ability to access, understand, use, evaluate, and create content using information technology. Their differences are that media literacy focuses on media content, information literacy focuses on library science like gathering and verifying information, and technology literacy focuses on applying digital skills like organizing and evaluating online information.

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Similarities and Differences in Media Literacy

Media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy are similar in that they all aim to cultivate people's ability to access, understand, use, evaluate, and create content using information technology. Their differences are that media literacy focuses on media content, information literacy focuses on library science like gathering and verifying information, and technology literacy focuses on applying digital skills like organizing and evaluating online information.

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Similarities and differences in media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy

Media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy are all similar in terms of goals.
They all share the common goal of cultivating people’s ability to access, understand, use, evaluate,
and create media messages, information, or content using information technology.

Media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy are all similar to the mastery and
understanding of a thing.

Media literacy, information literacy, and technology literacy’s differences are:

Media literacy uses forms of communication and produces ways of communication. It is about media
content.

Information literacy is using, managing, gathering, and verifying information. It is about library
science.

Technology literacy is applying new found knowledge from digital environments, participating in
digital media, organizing, and evaluating information.

Meaning of Information Literacy


Information literacy is the ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively. Students
learn how to evaluate the quality, credibility, validity of websites, and give proper credit from effective
search strategies to evaluation techniques. It is also referred to as digital literacy.

Meaning of Technology Literacy


Technology literacy is the ability to help one to communicate, solve problems, and enhance life-long
learning skills for future progress. Also, it is the ability to effectively use technology to access,
evaluate, integrate, create, and communicate information to enhance the learning process through
problem-solving and critical thinking.

Meaning of Media Literacy


Media literacy provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and participate with media
messages in a variety of forms from print to video to the internet. It builds an understanding of the role
of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression needed for democratic
citizens.

M AND T
both are essential for individuals to function and succeed in today's society
I and T
ability to use technology to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

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